On my Ubuntu server I'm running into an issue that I've never seen before even though I've been using Linux for many years. Basically sudo is not finding a command located in my path. Here is a transcript illustrating the problem.
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prg ~: echo $PATH
/opt/ruby/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
prg ~: sudo echo $PATH
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In RHEL5, the PATH of root is /sbin and /usr/sbin...., the PATH of common user has not /sbin or /usr/sbin, how to give the /sbin and /usr/sbin to a common user when he run command which sudo?
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GNU bash 3.1.17
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As you can see, /usr/local/bin is in the path. However, bash does not look for nasm in /usr/local/bin.
If I am root, things go well:
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If I try "shutdown" as a normal user on Debian it give the "command not found" error. OK it's not in my PATH. But if I "sudo shutdown" it works. Somehow sudo seems to change my PATH.
Do the same in Slackware however and sudo makes no difference, I get "command not found" each time.
When I try to run almost any command with sudo, it returns sudo: command: command not found. When I run sudo echo $path, it returns a blank line. Is there a command to set its path back to the default?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm attempting to add a directory to PATH so it's available when I sudo. (I do not want to sudo -i), but it's not behaving as I expect.I've added a line to add the directory to PATH in all of these files:
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/etc/environment
/etc/bash.bashrc
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Kernel 2.6.21.5, Slackware 12.0
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On the other hand
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So, I do not understand why the notification "sudo: cd: command not found", considering cd is a bash built-in command.
In short: how to make sudo not to flush PATH everytime?
I have some websites deployed on my server (Debian testing) written with Ruby on Rails. I use Mongrel+Nginx to host them, but there is one problem that comes when I need to restart Mongrel (e.g. after making some changes).
All sites are checked in VCS (git, but it is not important) and have owner and group set to my user, whereas Mongrel runs under the, huh, mongrel user that is severely restricted in it's rights. So Mongrel must be started under root (it can automatically change UID) or mongrel.
To manage mongrel I use mongrel_cluster gem because it allows starting or stopping any amount of Mongrel servers with just one command. But it needs the directory /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin to be in PATH: this is not enough to start it with absolute path.
Modifying PATH in root .bashrc changed nothing, tweaking sudo's env_reset and env_keep didn't either.
So the question: how to add a directory to PATH or keep user's PATH in sudo?
Update: some examples
$ env | grep PATH
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin
$ sudo cat /etc/sudoers | egrep -v '^$|^#'
Defaults env_keep = "PATH"
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I'm having a strange issue with the PATH variable when running the command 'sudo su'. When executing this command the PATH variable changes. No problems there, but it changes to:
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Looking at this, there are two weird entries (//sbin and //bin) which should both start '/usr' instead. I'm not sure how I've managed to change this, or how a piece of software I'm using has done it (more likely it was me I expect), but could anyone suggest which file to look in to correct it? If it makes a difference the machine is running CentOS 5.
I'm looking to allow sudo for openvpn for a user.
I cannot find the openvpn program path though, i try a 'which openvpn' command and it returns nothing! :S
What is the path? or how to allow a normal user account to run openvpn with sudo?
Solution found:
Working directories for openvpn on debian 8 are:
/etc/openvpn
/usr/sbin/openvpn
To add sudo capability to a guest account, run this with your admin account:
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then add the line, with your guest username substituted:
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tada! guest account now runs only openvpn.
I've installed rubygems on ubuntu, but it has a known issue that the rubygems' bin/ directory is not in the PATH. I know about exporting the PATH variable, and adding it to .bashrc, but I'd like to configure it so that every user has it on his PATH, even if he tries to run it with sudo. Where should I export the PATH variable then?
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen I add some path in .bashrc by commenting out old path and adding new one like this:
#EXPORT HOME_PLAY=/home/gem/old_play
EXPORT HOME_PLAY=/home/gem/play
EXPORT PATH=$PATH:HOME_PLAY
After saving above changes, I enter the command: source ~/.bashrc Now if I do echo $PATH, the path shows both the old PLAY_HOME and new PLAY_HOME. This is really bad and messes up a lot of things in my project. This problem only goes away if I logout or reboot, a rather very long process. What is happening is that the old path is added to new path element and the old path includes the old path element you want to remove.
I am using FF ver 5.0.1 from here After reading [URL] I did Code: sudo aa-logprof /path to firefox Allowed all when asked. But when I try to start FF in enforce mode I get
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I am having trouble running commands by using sudo. I configured visudo file with localuser ALL=(ALL) ALL but I can't run any command, it tells me command not found.
View 8 Replies View Relatedi changed to ubuntu completly..nomore windows for several reasons, but ofcourse being a newbie, im wondering a coupel things like where the program files are, also..what does the "sudo" command mean? does it just give you admin rights?? what are proprietary drivers, and can i emulate most games under wine?
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sudo nxt ERASE
I have set up root password and everything, but don't know how to do it.
I have a quick question: how can I make the path short on the console? My problem is that if I descend 10 levels in a directory tree, the path becomes so long that it takes more, than one line of the console window. Is there a way to shorten it, and show only the name of the current directory, without the whole path, i.e., instead of
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v923z@penguin: first/second/third/fourth/fifth/sixth/seventh/eighth/ninth/tenth>
only
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I need to add a network path to a configuration file, but I can't figure out how to write the path.
The command dir \computernamesharename works in a Windows command line.
ls //computername/sharename/ does not work under Linux. ("No such file or directory.") ls smb://computername/sharename/ does not work either.
Nautilus shows the location as smb://computername/sharename/, and I can read and write in the shared directory, so it's mounted and I have access.
So how do I get it to work? How do I specify the path so a command line will recognize it?
I got one of these broken packages message but can't remember the command to fix broken packages from the terminal.
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View 9 Replies View RelatedI was attempting to install the fglrx driver on my new ubuntu insallation, following a guide I found from google. At one point it says I need to login as super user, so I tried and no matter how many times I try it just keeps saying authentication failed. I even tried typing in my password with 1 finger, multiple times, every single time, authentication failed. So I decided to try the sudo command with fdisk -l, worked flawlessly. Tried the su command again, authentication failed, I have no idea what in heck is causing this but it just won't stop happening.
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1. I dont undestand what "if ! echo $PATH | /bin/grep -qE "(^|:)$1($|:)"" this if statement actually comapres??
2. Also what is the difference between PATH=$PATH:$1 & PATH=$1:$PATH
I have installed jdk1.6_0_0 to kubuntu 8.10. But javac command doesn't work yet.
How do I set path?
Here are the outputs i got from typign some commands
How i can run the following command (for Ubuntu) in Mandriva 2005 ? What is the similar command ?
sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8 pyro mercurial build-essential bison flex mercurial python-numpy
When trying to open nautilus as root, I get the following message:
xxx@xxx-desktop:~$ sudo nautillus
[sudo] password for xxx:
sudo: nautilus: command not found
xxx@xxx-desktop:~$ sudo nautilus
(nautilus:3917): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion 'preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
** (nautilus:3917): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'UploadFinished'
** (nautilus:3917): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'DownloadFinished'
** (nautilus:3917): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'ShareCreateError'
Initializing nautilus-clamscan extension
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
** (nautilus:3917): WARNING **: Could not inhibit power management: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
--- Hash table keys for warning below:
--> xxx
--> root
--> inode/directory
--> l2050
--> l2049
--> staff
--> xxx
(nautilus:3917): Eel-WARNING **: "unique eel_ref_str" hash table still has 7 elements at quit time (keys above)
(nautilus:3917): Eel-WARNING **: "nautilus-directory.c: directories" hash table still has 12 elements at quit time
Shutting down nautilus-gdu extension
i am using ubuntu 9.10 .i recently installed vmware server in ubuntu. since during installation of vmware i gave default values the default username for vmware server is root. inorder to access vmware server i changed the root password in terminal. i gave the following command in terminalsudo password rootit prompted for new password and i entered the password. after that i accessed the vmware server using the username as root and password. it worked fine,i created a virtual machine and it worked fine.now the problem is when i restarted the system and login to vmware server i was unable to access virtual machines created previously. also now i am not able to use sudo command .the following message shows up. sudo: must be setuid root. may be this prob is due to the command i gave sudo password root. can someone help me resolve this prob and go back to my previous state.before when i used to give a sudo command it asked for my account password.
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sudo shutdown now
command does not shut the computer down
When the command is typed a, all the programs are closed and proceeds to shut down. But after some time, screen gets stuck(plymouth animation stops moving). But the computer is still working. Fan is running , Power LED is on. LED showing hard disk usage blinks at equal time interval. There is no problem in shutting down using the button on panel. So I suppose it is not a hardware problem. More over there is no problem in windows. The graphics card is Nvidia Geforce 7300GS. I am using proprietary Nvidia driver.
I just installed node.js and it is located at /home/apantev/local/node/bin . So I added the follow to my ~/.bashrc
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export PATH=/home/apantev/local/node/bin:$PATH
And this works fine if I use node normally for instance
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node -v
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I have to enter the root password every time I want to run
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sudo vpnc
and I know that there is a way to avoid entering password every time but I can't remember what it is.
I have written a script that must be run as root, but at one point in the script there is some library configuration which should not be run as root. So my question, is there a command that runs another command as not root when root? (If that makes any sense..)
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